Snowflakes danced through the air, and Great Qin City seemed blanketed in white. Festive red lanterns hung all along the streets, every household had pasted up couplets, and cheerful New Year prints celebrating reunion adorned the walls. People flowed through the streets, their faces brimming with smiles.
From atop a tall tower, Zhao Fu looked down upon the grand and magnificent entirety of Great Qin City. Seeing family after family gathered in warm reunion, he could not help but feel a trace of loneliness in his heart.
It was the New Year. On this day, Great Qin halted all activities. The Spring Festival counted as one of Great Qin's most important holidays, with everything carrying on Huaxia's traditions.
Huaxia had now been unified by Great Qin and could only become a thing of the past. Only a few remnants had fled to other continents, while the many nations, peoples, and territories originally surrounding Huaxia had all been incorporated under Great Qin's name.
Looking across all of history, no one had ever accomplished such an almost impossible great undertaking. If not for the Land of Inheritance and the existence of other worlds, everything should have come to an end long ago.
Great Qin's regions had yet to be fully cleared. Once the cleansing was complete, Great Qin would launch its final war of unification. From then on, all under heaven would be at peace, and the human world would know war no more.
"Your Majesty! Hug!"
Xiao Jiu, dressed in a snow-white padded coat, brought Xiao Qiang up the tower. With a rattle-drum in one hand, she happily threw herself toward him.
With a light laugh, Zhao Fu picked her up, along with Xiao Qiang behind her. The two played about in his arms, making him feel as though he had